Atiwa District benefits from social amenities
Five social amenity facilities, comprising a one-storey building of 20 units of lockable stores, two community health planning services (CHPS) compounds, a kindergarten and a three-unit classroom block, were over the weekend inaugurated in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region.
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The one-storey building is located at the Anyinam Market, while the two CHPS compounds are at Accra Village and Osoroase.
The kindergarten is at Jejeti Aboe, while the three-unit classroom block is for the AME Zion Junior High School at Abomosu.
The projects were financed with proceeds from the District Development Facility, the District Assemblies’ Common Fund and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund).
Essential social amenities
The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Atiwa, Mr Emmanuel Atta Twum, while inaugurating the facilities, said it had been the desire of the government and the assembly to improve the living conditions of the people by providing them with essential social amenities.
He recalled that over the past eight years, a number of amenities had been provided in many communities throughout the district.
Mr Atta Twum urged the chiefs and the people in communities, where the amenities had been sited to form committees that would be charged with the responsibility of ensuring that the facilities were well managed.
The Director of Health Services in the Atiwa District, Mr Eric Atuahene, said he was hopeful that by 2020 all communities in the area would have essential social amenities of their own, in order that their lives might be improved.
Medical facility
The Chief of Accra Village, Nii Awuni Doku, expressed his appreciation to the assembly for providing the village with a medical facility, the first of its kind ever since the village came into being more than a century ago.
He urged the assembly to consider extending electricity to the village.
For his part, the Works Engineer of the Atiwa District Assembly, Mr George Osei, said the assembly was sure that the jobs executed by the contractors were of high quality.